Moscow Court Jails Journalist for One-person Protest During Coronavirus Lockdown
FILE PHOTO: Legislation enforcement officials dressed in protecting mask stand guard at a checkpoint arrange after Moscow government tightened up measures to stop the unfold of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19), in Moscow, Russia.
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Ilya Azar, a journalist on the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which is important of the Kremlin, was once detained by means of police on Tuesday. He was once discovered responsible of many times breaking protest law and ordered him jailed for 15 days.
- Reuters
- Ultimate Up to date: Might 28, 2020, 11:34 PM IST
A Moscow court docket on Thursday jailed a outstanding anti-Kremlin journalist for a one-person protest all over the town’s coronavirus lockdown, sentencing him to 15 days in jail.
Ilya Azar, a journalist on the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which is important of the Kremlin, was once detained by means of police on Tuesday as he stood by myself out of doors the Russian capital’s police headquarters to protest in opposition to the prison prosecution of a well-liked blogger.
Such one-person protests are normally criminal in Russia, however Sergei Sobyanin, the town’s mayor, has banned public occasions all over the coronavirus epidemic and stated that folks handiest have the suitable to depart their houses for particular duties, which don’t come with political protests.
A court docket on Thursday discovered Azar responsible of many times breaking protest law and ordered him jailed for 15 days.
No less than 3 different reporters, together with Tatyana Felgengauer, deputy leader editor of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, had been detained on Thursday for staging their very own one-person pickets in Azar’s toughen.
“Lone pickets aren’t against the law,” learn an indication held up by means of Felgengauer, prior to she was once led away by means of police.
Moscow is in its 9th week of a lockdown. The entire detained reporters had been dressed in mask.
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